What to expect during a Lasik Consultation?

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What to expect during a Lasik Consultation? Are
you planning to go for a Lasik surgery? Certainly
there has to be some pre-operative checkups to
find out the eligibility of the candidate who
wants to go for Lasik surgery. This is known as
Lasik Consultation. After a series of
questionnaires, discussion and non-surgical eye
evaluation, you will come to know whether you
are fit for the Lasik procedure or not. Probably
you might is also find out that there is no need
of any kind of surgery and your vision defect can
be corrected through medications or other
non-invasive methods. The Manhattan Lasik Center
is the best place for Lasik Consultation if you
are staying around the Manhattan and its
suburbs. Pre-consultation activities In a Lasik
consultation, the shape of the cornea is examined
the ophthalmologist will generally suggest to
stop the use of lenses before few days or weeks
of the Lasik Consultation because it can alter
the corneal shape and its important for cornea
to be in its original shape during the eye
examination. If you wish to know more about
pre-consultation activities, you can contact the
Manhattan Lasik center and schedule an
appointment. What happens during
Consultation? Finally when the day of your Lasik
Consultation arrives, there will be a kind of
counseling sessions with your ophthalmologist.
He will be asking about the duration from which
youve been using lenses or glasses. He will
also ask that why you want to go for Lasik and
what are your expectations after it.Many
patients expectthat they will get complete
freedom from lenses or specs after it and its
quite possible but not in everybodys case for
example mostly the elderly persons will be
needing glasses for reading. Your expectations
from a Lasik surgery also make you good or bad
candidate means if you have realistic goals and
expectations from it you are a good candidate and
if you are having unrealistic expectations, you
wont be called a good candidate because you
might end up in disappointment after the
surgery. This is the reason the eye surgeons of
the Manhattan Lasik center makes it very clear to
the patients about the possible outcomes of the
surgery. The most common question your
ophthalmologist will be asking you is about your
health history. Diabetes, auto-immune diseases,
any other prolonged illness can be a hindrance
for the Lasik procedure. Certain ocular
conditions like dry eyes, ocular herpes could
also make you inappropriate candidate for the
surgery. However theres a solution for every
problem and these hindrances too can be
overcome. The recovery time is also discussed
during the Lasik Consultation as different
patients have different healing time after the
Lasik. Different lifestyles and different factors
will affect the healing time such as use of
pills, alcohol consumption, smoking, drugs etc.
These factors can also affect the candidacy for
Lasik. Comprehensive Lasik test
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After the verbal consultation session comes the
eye exam, which will include corneal test- its
thickness, curvature topography, pupil
dilation, prescription movement, dry eyes test
etc. If you are at the Manhattan Lasik, the
surgeons will explain about each test before it
is done. Lastly after all the tests are done
your doctors will tell you finally about your
eligibility of Lasik. For more detail please
visit manhattanlasikcenter.com/ or call us
212-759-9617